Proficiency in the use of Life Rafts was introduced to Sea Rescue to ensure that crews on the larger rescue vessels would know exactly how to react should their rescue boat have to be abandoned at sea, and how best ...
Agulhas station commander, Reinard Geldenhuys, recently co-presented an Incident Commander and Command Staff course in Nelspruit. On his day off he decided to go to the Kruger National Park, and got lucky with his game spotting.This is his story.“After a ...
Making NSRI displays at exhibitions and fundraising events interesting is always a challenge. Each of the NSRI regions have different ways of doing things, but most will use a mannequin at some stage ... Sea Rescue’s gear is after all ...
Being a Sea Rescue volunteer is a huge time commitment. We all live close to our stations, and for our on-duty period we need to be able to respond to the base in under 10 minutes. The rescue teams are ...
On Saturday the 14th of May, students from the NMMU business studies programme came down to station 6 to hand over a cheque. They had collected R1200.00 for Sea Rescue as part of their Social Responsibilities programme.The money was put ...
A large, all night sea rescue exercise, was hosted by NSRI’s Mossel Bay station commander Dawie Zwiegelaar and a huge team of volunteers during Saturday night.The venue of the exercise was in the vicinity and surrounds of Mossel Bay, both ...
A big thank you to Ogilvy for the creating this eye catching campaign and for securing free billboard space around the country.You will see three of the “ Support the team that saves lives” billboards around Johannesburg : in the ...
Charles Dobey of Cecil Kilpin draws ping-pong balls to work out the winners of the R10 000 draw.Congratulations to the April Debit order winners in the NSRI Debit Order Competition. Each month hundreds of people donate as little as ...
Durban Station 5 held their May induction on Mothers day, and as usual it put the potential volunteers to the test - and showed, in no uncertain terms, that being a NSRI crewman is not easy. The driving rain and ...
Durban station commander Clifford Ireland spotted the possibilities for this classic picture of the 10 metre Eikos Rescuer II at the Silt Canal in the Durban Harbour. The fence ... and the composition, placing the boat on the third of ...
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